Sense of urgency, lessons learned, organizational alignment, team approach, training and an increasing engineering and statistical capability at CDER FDA can be expected to facilitate a move by industry towards continues manufacturing, FDA’s current emphasis on ‘statistical confidence’, Process Validation Guidance 2011, is likely to highlight certain issues (e.g., special causes) within current batch processing; these observation will need to be addressed in an appropriate risk-based manner
Ensuring that pragmatic consideration for specifications & control (intended use) is essential and importance of pragmatic decisions should not be forgotten (e.g., as in case of Design Space Vs. SUPAC), Effective regulatory communication (considering the engineering and statistical emphasis) will be crucial for ensuring regulatory uncertainty is managed in a timely manner,